If you're familiar with DOM, then "/" equates to the Document node, and "/*"
to the document element (TipDatabase in your case). In XSLT/XPath 1.0 the
document node is called the "root node", and the term "document element" is
not used (I generally refer to it as the "outermost element" to avoid
confusion: it is not the root of the tree, because it has a parent).

The reason a separate document or root node is needed is that it can contain
comments and processing instructions among its children, as well as the
outermost element.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Preuss [mailto:d.preuss@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 August 2005 09:04
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  xsl:key function help
> 
> 
> Hello Joris,
> 
> > The usage of the 'key()' function and the implementation of 
> > the Muenchian grouping is 100% correct.
> > The problem is really much easier:
> > You do not want <xsl:template match="/"> but instead: 
> > <xsl:template match="TipDatabase">
> 
> gosh it works. But why? I assumed that "/" equals 
> "TipDatabase" because it
> is the root element.
> 
> So could you give an explanation why TipDatabase != "/". I 
> think I should go
> way back in my basic understanding of XSL concepts... :-(
> 
> Anyway thank you very much Joris.
> 
> David